The Applications Development Manager is an intermediate management level position responsible for providing full leadership and direction to a team of employees in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:
- The AVP serves as a key contributor to the PACE Central Team, with a primary mandate to bolster technical oversight, drive automation, and ensure stringent compliance across middleware infrastructure engineering and vulnerability management.
- A core responsibility of the role is providing robust governance for Middleware Vulnerability Management (VTM) and Vulnerability Assessment (VA) remediations, ensuring service application tenants are successfully patched.
- The AVP will lead and implement automation strategies for VTM patching across Service Applications in pre-defined GZ environments, significantly reducing external and third-party risks for internet-facing applications.
- Developing self-service automations to reduce Mean Time to Production (MTP) and foster a consistent patching model is also a critical deliverable.
- The role demands rigorous oversight of Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), scrutinizing root causes of delays and systemic issues to prevent future recurrences. The AVP will prioritize compliance requirements — including BCM, VTM, and EOVS remediations — and promptly escalate any SLA slippage on VTM KPIs to senior management.
- Manage a team of Applications Development professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, training and development, hiring and disciplinary actions) as well as act as an advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts
- Oversee process for technical issue escalation and prioritize technical issue resolution
- Leverage skills across Applications Development area to provide technical oversight across systems and applications
- Communicate internal and external departmental interdependence as well as cross product and cross project
- Resolve issues using in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within applications development
- Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business processes, system processes, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
- Contribute to planning, budget management, formulation of procedures, and resource planning negotiating with external parties when necessary
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Recommended Qualifications:
- 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
- Ability to take ownership and make technical decisions on software development projects
- Experience with dependency management, change management, continuous integration testing tools, and audit/compliance requirements
- Extensive knowledge of software engineering and object-oriented design
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group: Technology
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Job Family:Applications Development
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Time Type:Full time
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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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